The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-05


as though President worse that none
was about to manufactured. DESPITE the
aercsly expressed will Of the people pre-.
liminary voting had been INDUCED In BY
Deputies, and Jules Ferry, the despised o.
Radicals, had come out iar ahead In these
preliminary struggles. This meant, a.
lar as tual elections WAS concerned, iust
nothing at oil, but was sufficient to heat
tho popular wrath several degrees above
the boiling point. Everyone was afraid,
especially the Government, which was In
a pitilully nervous condition, as was made
apparent as coon as the Legislators and
prosperous ci.izs rs ol Paris started for
Veraailles.
THE GATHERING CROWDS.
By noon all Frenchnen Of Importance
were a. Veroailles and all Europe was
eagerly watching that place through over.
burdened telegraph wires. But the eight
wao one to bs seen with the eyee, for it
was one more interesting than any seen
In this interesting old world for many
yeara. Tralns from Paris were arriving
every moment, dedinaide and out with
passengers. the streets were crowded with
every sort OF man.cArrying vehicles, and
the Sidewalks were sWarming with French
iolk on loot, oil hurryiDg eagerly toward
the big red palace, and few on the way
organizing lltt!s fights among themselves,
or mild disturbances with soldiers and
police, who seemed to spring out Of every
cobblrs.ono.
Within the palace the crowd was almoo,
as great 90 without. Thousands of BOO,
unior!unates found that tickets which
brought them inside the door had nc
iurther power, and that they were as ia,
from any hope Of witnessing the preal
election as though they had remained il
Paris, Tickets had been Issued 10 fully
ten times % many as could be seated
Jamea Z. Blaine was among those yhc
had been deceived by sample ticket aud
an Official word. French Legislators might
have suffered the disgrace Of having The
very biggest kind oi spectator turned
away from their proceedings, for Mr.
B!alne, though no reads French, lGcks the
ability to speak it, which would have ena.
o!ed him to crush haughtily in and asser,
his rights. =
1t must have struck Mr. Blaine az a yery
simple, easy thing to run for President in
France. Th!a wsH what be saw: a.
immense hall, tho finest, perhaps, in the
world, with galleries ono above the Other
on three sides Of 1t, between large marble
columns.- On the other side opposite him
q curious complication Of desks, raised up
in pyramid shape, CONNECTED by stair
cases and with little, ,dTisd.up Monsieur le
Roger, President Of the Senate, perched
At the topmost pinnacle; about and back
OF hlm q lsrge painting Of the first meeting
OF tho Tiers Etatin that Seine Buetsne Hs
below and stretched over vast epace in
front OF him all the Senators and Depu.
ties, covering the endless rows Of fiery
red aeata. 81 =
TIE ELECTION.
Tbs Preeident Of the Senate rose and
every one yelled. Ho tried to speak and
every one yelled again for five minutes,
the galleries joining in. One deputy
showed that he wanted to make q motion,
Le Royer told him it was not constitutional
and another deputy yelled that there vas
no more constitution. While the first
deputy, n. Michelin, who wanted to do
nothing less than revise the constitution.
howled about despoIism and got up a ysry
respectable hubbub among his folio wers.
This struck the rest Of the house as wrong,
and they all yelled together to mark their
diaspprova!. Fifteen men in the report.
ers' gallery we're at the same time shout.
ing ''loader" at Ls Roger, who was tslk.
ing right on. The latter had in front Of
him o bell mounted on an axle, which
looked SO though it had been taken from
an American locomotive and polished up.
de rang this with both hands awhile and
bad everything bis own way. When the
figures were announced at 1850, Sadi-
Uarnot had 1903; Ferry. 2l2; sauasier, l4S:
Dc Freycinet, rs; Appert, 72; Brisson, 26
Fioqusr 5; Anstole de la Yorge, Felix.
Pyat and Pasteur each 2, and Spuller i
out OF total OF $40 votes. f.' '1E T.
Another ballot was taken, and during
the two hours necessary for counting the
notes.-the crowd had good chance to note
the elects OF defeat on prominent caudi.
dates, who then foressw their doom.
Ferry, who had been made nervous by
the evident rsluctance of his colleagues.
watched by the much.dreaded newspaper
men, to cit by him or support him in any
way, shifted nervously in his seat biting
his nails, and at last rose, went over and
shook hands with ssdi. Carnot and left the
house. De Freycinet, who had sat bllnk.
ing in evident surprise, did the same,
There was faint cheering, for which there
was not much causs, while waiting ior the
result OF tho ascond ballot.
BLAINE A ZIG MAN, 81
The c,oId in the Rallsrieo poured ont
into tho corridors, and Mr.. Blaine was
among them. lie was recognized BY q
lot OF important folk, introduced to LOT
more, pointed out 10 hundreds, and talked
to in broken English by Frenchmen
whose only claim upon bis acquaintance
was that they had bsen to America, and,
in short, took place that ought to be his
in any political gathering. It was uni.
versally observed that Mr.. Blaine was
looking bstter. Tho extreme paleness
which was commented upon when be ar.
rived in London has left him, and his
health is excellent and his voice strong,
IN short time he starts with his family
ior Cannes. 81 +, -lii-7 -
At $3.50 the rssult Of the second ballot
and tho election Of sadi. .Oarnot was an.
nounced. Amid the widest applause and
cheering he was proclaimed President oI
the Republic. he was modestly, sbaeni
when 1t was announced that he had re.
celved GIG votes. General suisser had
1sS. Ferry had dropped down to IL, and
Fteycinet even moro pitiably to s. MSS.
The choice Of eadi. Garnet will be &C
cop!able to almost everyone, especially al
be relieves the popular mind from thu
dread of=sseing Ferry in power. The bea
that can be said OF him is that he vii
make such a Preaidsnt as NJ. Grevy wei
believed to be-honest, upright, business
like, without dangerous ambition and ,
true moderate Republican. Heis nlod